The 98-year-old former commander of the Turkish army, who had been receiving treatment at the GE-lhane Military Academy of Medicine (GATA), had been recently attached to a breathing machine, news reports said on Saturday.

Emily was put into an incubator and on to a breathing machine - continuous positive airway pressure machine known as a CPAP - and checked for septicaemia, meningitis and an array of other condition and infections.

In a court case stemming from the dispute over burial sites, some members of Mr Mandela's extended family recently said in court documents that Mr Mandela was being kept alive by a breathing machine and faces "impending death".

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